R. A. STREATFEILD.
November, 1910.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
The Italics in the passages quoted in this book are generally mine, but I found it almost impossible to call the reader’s attention to this upon every occasion. I have done so once or twice, as thinking it necessary in these cases that there should be no mistake; on the whole, however, I thought it better to content myself with calling attention in a preface to the fact that the author quoted is not, as a general rule, responsible for the Italics.
S. BUTLER.
November 13, 1877.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| PREFACE BY R. A. STREATFEILD | [vii] | |
| AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL PREFACE | [x] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS | [1] |
| II. | CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS—THE LAW AND GRACE | [20] |
| III. | APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED INSTINCTIVE | [43] |
| IV. | APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES TO ACTIONS AND HABITS ACQUIRED BEFORE BIRTH | [59] |
| V. | PERSONAL IDENTITY | [78] |
| VI. | PERSONAL IDENTITY—(continued) | [91] |
| VII. | OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES | [104] |
| VIII. | APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS—THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTER | [125] |
| IX. | ON THE ABEYANCE OF MEMORY | [150] |
| X. | WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND IF DIFFERENTIATIONS OF STRUCTURE AND INSTINCT ARE MAINLY DUE TO MEMORY | [166] |
| XI. | INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY | [198] |
| XII. | INSTINCTS OF NEUTER INSECTS | [220] |
| XIII. | LAMARCK AND MR. DARWIN | [252] |
| XIV. | MR. MIVART AND MR. DARWIN | [273] |
| XV. | CONCLUDING REMARKS | [294] |
| APPENDIX AUTHOR’S ADDENDA | [308] |
CHAPTER I.
ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS.
It will be our business in the following chapters to consider whether the unconsciousness, or quasi-unconsciousness, with which we perform certain acquired actions, would seem to throw any light upon Embryology and inherited instincts, and otherwise to follow the train of thought which the class of actions above-mentioned would suggest; more especially in so far as they appear to bear upon the origin of species and the continuation of life by successive generations, whether in the animal or vegetable kingdoms.